Paper keg, barrel, box, &amp;c.



. M. LAGHMAN. PAPER KEG, BARREL, BOX, 6:0. rrmonmn FILED APR.21.1910.

1,012,867, Patented Dec. 26, 1911.

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I mvmron mauml ce Lack-man A TTUHNEYS PAPER KEG, BARREL, BOX, 6w. APPLICATION FILED APR.21, 1910.

1 ,01 2,867; Patented Dec. 26, 1911.

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1 maurice L0c72m cm I MAURICE LACHMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO UNIVERSAL ELECTRIC WELDING COMPANY, OF LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW fastening and holding the heads;

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PAPER KEG, BARREL, BOX, &o.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec, 26, 191.1,

Application filed April 21, 1910. Serial No. 556,?55.

My present invention relates eto kegs,.

barrels, boxes or similar containers such as used for shipping nails, fruit or other material or goods. l L

My invention more particularly relates to containers in which the body is made of paper or similar material and provided with means .for reinforcing the same.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a container which will be very light and strong whereby shipping charges will be low and the container will be capable of withstanding the very rough handling to which such packages are subjected in shipping. Another object of the invention is to provide a container which will be much cheaper than the Wooden ones nowc ommonly em.- ployed for the above purposesiand at the same time of such construction; that it will be capable of withstanding as much and more rough handling than the woodenones. Further objects are to providea container, the body of which is formed of paper or other similar material and provided with reinforcing means securely held in place about the body without any way Weakening it or being liable to become loose or detached.

Heretofore in making paper kegs and barrels? the main diificulty has .been to' secure the reinforcing hoops in' place. This has ordinarily been done by fastening the hoops to the paper body by perforating the paper and tying or fastening the hoops by wires or rivets. quently tears out at the fastenings, and the keg br barrel becomes destroyed or mutilated. Also great difliculty has been met within providing suitable Ways of securely In the preferred manner of carrying iny invention into effect the hoops are held in place about the keg or barrel without actually fastening them to the paper or at least without depending upon securing them to the paper In usage the paper consebody to hold them in place. I also provlde novel means for securing the heads to the body.

The invention consists in the novel construction of keg, barrel or othe form of container andthe parts thereof hereinafter more particularly described and then specified in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a keg or barrel constructed in accordance with the preferred manner of carrying my invention into practice. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a"vertical central section through the ,container shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an enlarged section and partial elevation through the fastening for the head. Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the position of the parts before clamping the cover. Fig. 6

is a side elevation of a modification in the construction. Fig. 7 is av plan view of the modification illustrated-in Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is an enlarged cross-section through the fastening for the head and taken on line X X Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a vertical central section through a further modification. Fig. 10 is a partial section illustrating a still furthermodification.

The invention is herein shown and will be described as applied to a keg or barrel but it will be understood that it may equally well be employed with other forms or contours of containers as for instance rectangular or square boxes or the like, and 1s not limited to the particular forms shown.

When the invention is applied to kegs or barrels, the' body of the keg or barrel consists preferably of a cylinder of paper or other similar non-metallic material 1 formed in any desired manner. The'cylinder 1 is preferably formed of a number of layers of paper superimposed on each other, preferably by spinning, and compressed into a very solid 'mass, the various layers being preferably united by suitable cement, glue or paste, whereby a very rigid wall is attained. The specific manner of forming the cylinde r or body forms no part of my invention and further description will be dispensed with. 2 indicates bands or hoops of met-a1 passing closely around the cylinder 1 at its ends.

These may be either onthe outside or the of my invention shown in Figs. 1 to 4 in- .clusive, the hoops 2 are each provided with an integral lateral flange. 2'. These flanges constitute end plates resting upon and protecting the edge of the body 1 at its opposite ends and act to prevent frayingof the paper or other damage to the ends. The

endpIateS whether upon the end hoops or rings or forming the edge or rim of the detachable heads, together with the members 3 tying'the end plates together and an chored to the same, as will be presently described, constitute a retaining frame for the cylinder.

3 indicates longitudinal metallicstays'of any desired number disposed about the bod v 1 at convenient intervals and by-which the protecting end plates are tied together. In

the form of my invention shown in Fig. 1, these stays are placed on the inside of the cyl nder 1 but at the ends thereof they are bent outwardly through slots 4 and provided with flexible extensions 3, adapted to be bent over to anchor the ends of said stays on the end plates engaging the edges of the rim, and to .tie said end plates together. They also serve as a means for fastening the metal rims of the detachable reinforced paper heads down upon the edges of the body, as will be later described. The

metal plates 2' may be provided with holes through which the ends of the stays may pass. By the anchoring of the longitudinal stay members on annular metal plates engaging the'edge, they are enabled to act as tension members for a reinforbement resisting external or internal forces tending to deform the paper body. The stay members may be attached or connected to the hoops 2 at both ends of the cylinder 1 in any desired way as for instance by fastenin them directly'to said hoops in any suitab e manner, preferably by electrically welding 45' them, as at the point 10. vIf'desired, any

number of hoops 5 might be provided intermediate of the hoops 2, the hoops 5 being fastenedito the stays 3 in any suitableman ner as for instanceby vwelding the two together as indicated at 6. i

p The heads of the container are detachable paper heads having a metallic reinforce; ment terminating in an annular metal rim preferably provided with a flange or other part against which the paper disk or head 5 seats, the rim being adapted to seat upo n the edges oft-he body.

8 is a disk or plate of paper or other suitable material, and 9 is a reinforcing and protecting lattice-work of wires or rods of metal, preferably located on the outer surface of the disk 8. 1

7 is the metal rim of the paper head,- .preferably formed as an annular ring or rim, the inner and outer edges of which are .locatedin different horizontal planes. The

rods or wires 9 are preferably welded, or

otherwise secured to each other on their intersections 11, and may. also be welded to the rim as at 25. The metalreinforcement 9 is preferably removable bodily with the rim when the head is detached and in that sense the reinforcement is permanently attached to the rim to be carried by it when removing the head.

Theheads are placed upon the body or cylinder 1, theends 3 of the stays 3 passing preferably through suitable holes near the outer edge of the rim 7 as shown in Fig. 5.

After the rims? have been seated on the flanges 2, the ends 3 are bent inwardly and clench the heads as shown in Fig. 4, and

therebyalso tie the heads as well as the hoops and their plates or flanges 2 constituting the annular end plates at the opposite ends of the cylinder securely together. By thistying of the heads together any expansive force tending to bulge and disrupt or detach either head is effectually resisted by the anchoring of the tension or stay members on the end plate or rim of the head at the opposite end of-the body.

If desired, the stays and also the interme- 65 diate hoops like hoops 5, of Fig. 1 might be located on,the outsideof the keg or barrel as indicated in Figs. 6 and 8. In this form the stay members are preferably flat strips 12 provided with longitudinal ridges.

In theform shown in Fig. 8, the annular end plates engaging the edge of the stays, consist alone of the flanged edges of the rim upon which the flexible extensions' of the frame are bent inward vand and tied together by the longitudinal turned down as before, .said flexible 'extensions being preferably the ends of the stay members 12, whereby the said end plates are tied together as already described, and the detachable paper heads are likewise" secured together through their attached annular rims. members may pass through openings in the rim as indicated. Hoops 13 in the form of rods or wires may be used, the end ones of which are preferably welded to the ridges of the stay members. The intermediate hoops are also preferably welded at their intersections with the stays .12. The flan es or plates 12 may be extended outward ar The ends of the stay enough to pass over the hoops 13 and to be turned down as shown over the side of said hoops to assist in holding'them in place. The paper or other disks 8 are also reinforced preferably by ridged metal strips 14 Welded to each other attheir intersections. Another way of making up the head is shown in this form wherein the ridged strips 14 are welded at their ends, as indicated at 15, to the ring 7 and the paper disk secured thereto by binding wires 16 passing through openings in the disk 8 and over the intersections of the strips 14.

In Figs. 9 and '10 the end plates or proteeting flanges are shown tied together by the stays by passing flexible ends of the stay members 3 through openings in the hoops of which the flanges constitute a part and through the body portion, the ends being then clenched on the opposite side of the body to which the stay member is located and the whole constituting a retaining frame for the paper body., The heads are secured in a manner similar to that in the previous forms by providing an upwardly projecting pin 20 on the hoop corresponding to the end 3' shown in Fig. 5 and forming like the latter a flexible extension of the framework, since'by the tying of the stays to the hoops the pins on the flanges of the latter constitutein efl'ect ends of the stays and flexible extension of the frame by which the heads may be tied together. Fig. 9 shows the stays and hoops located on the inside of the body whereas Fig. 10 shows the stays located on the outside and the hoops inside although it will be obvious that both might be equally well located on the outside.

The welding of the various parts is preferably effected by using the well-known electric welding process in which the current of electricity is passed from one part to the other and pressure simultaneously applied to force the material together. The parts shown in the form illustrated in Fig. 6 readily adapt themselves to be joined in this manner, as will be readily understood by those skilled in the electric metal working art, whereas the flat bands or hoops shown in the other figures are preferably provided With points or projections to localize the heating and pressure and by means of which projections the bands or hoops are united to the stay members by the above mentioned process.

-What I claim as my invention is 1. A container comprising a body of nonmetallic material like paperand a retaining as a'unit and each comprlsing a paper disk which forms the body of the head an annular metal rim adapted to rest on the edge of the body and to form a seat for said disk, combined with longitudinal metallic stay and tension members disposed around the body, and means for connecting them to said metal rims to tie the heads together.

3. A container head comprising a paper disk forming the body of the head, an annular metal rim adapted to rest on the edge of the container and to form a seat for the paper disk, and a skeleton metal reinforcement for said disk permanently attached to said rim.

4. A container comprising a non-metallic body like paper and a retaining and reinforcing framework'therefor comprising flanged metal hoops, one at each end of the body, the flanges of said hoops being adapted to rest upon and form a protection for the edges of the body and uniting longitudinal stay and tension members united to and securing said flanged hoops together to form a unitary metallic framework reinforcing said body and preventing the same from slipping out of the framework endwise' in either direction, and detachable heads for said body resting by their rims upon the flanges of the hoops and flexible extensions of said frame detachably fastening the said rims down upon said flanges.

Signed at Long Island City in the county of Queens and State of New York this 20th day of April A. D. 1910.

MAURICE LACHMAN.

' Vitnesses:

Jo. ELLINGER, M. KELLEY. 

